The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., Volumen2W. Hilliard., 1806 |
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... letter to a learned friend ; which his zeal dictated , but a fear of being thought presumptuous in intruding an opin- ion prevented him from sending . As the gentleman has desisted from his undertaking , the hints may prove useful to ...
... letter to a learned friend ; which his zeal dictated , but a fear of being thought presumptuous in intruding an opin- ion prevented him from sending . As the gentleman has desisted from his undertaking , the hints may prove useful to ...
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... letters . I came up again , I compared the copy mentally with the original , and found the means to rectify two or three little errors , that had es- caped me . In this fragment were mentioned the persecu- tions , experienced by the ...
... letters . I came up again , I compared the copy mentally with the original , and found the means to rectify two or three little errors , that had es- caped me . In this fragment were mentioned the persecu- tions , experienced by the ...
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... letters of introduction to the elector . He went to Munich , and with the good fortune , which seemed to watch him in all his steps , he was received by his Serene Highness with the greatest kindness and friendship . After many ...
... letters of introduction to the elector . He went to Munich , and with the good fortune , which seemed to watch him in all his steps , he was received by his Serene Highness with the greatest kindness and friendship . After many ...
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... letters of gold on a black ground , " NO " ALMS WILL BE RECEIVED HERE . " To attempt a description of the wretched state of the poor in Bavaria ; to recount the many ineffectual schemes , which had been adopted to exterminate idleness ...
... letters of gold on a black ground , " NO " ALMS WILL BE RECEIVED HERE . " To attempt a description of the wretched state of the poor in Bavaria ; to recount the many ineffectual schemes , which had been adopted to exterminate idleness ...
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... letters to a " student of Harvard University . " With these he is high- ly displeased ; and certainly he has cause of displeasure . The letters , according to his own statement , contain little , except truth . As it is so rare at the ...
... letters to a " student of Harvard University . " With these he is high- ly displeased ; and certainly he has cause of displeasure . The letters , according to his own statement , contain little , except truth . As it is so rare at the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
academy acquainted admired Æneid ancient appear Ashur beauty called Chaldee character Choiseul common Count Rumford discovered divine Dryden duellist earth edition effect England English Ennius envy Epicurus essay excellence express favor flood genius Gifford give Greece happy Herculaneum honor hope improvement interest Johnson Junius Juvenal Juventa kind labor land language learned letters letters of Junius literary Livy Lucan Lucretius mankind manner ment merit mind modern Munich nations nature never object obliged observations opinion original passage Persius person Pharsalia philosophical pleasure Plutus poem poet poetry Pompey praise present principles published Raamah reason religion remarks rendered respect Roman Rumford satire society spirit style supposed Syriac taste thermoscope thing thor tion town translation truth verse virtue whole words writer youth
Pasajes populares
Página 89 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Página 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 89 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Página 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
Página 91 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Página 76 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Página 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Página 90 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Página 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Página 91 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...